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Readme for "Taking One for the (Other) Team: Does Political Diversity Lower Vaccination Uptake?"

Sung Eun Kim and Krzysztof Pelc

Political Behavior
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In this README file, we provide a brief description of the files required to reproduce all analytic results of the article, "Taking One for the (Other) Team: Does Political Diversity Lower Vaccination Uptake?"

The analyses were performed using Stata/MP version 16.0 and  R version 4.2.3 on macOS Sonoma version 14.1.2


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List of files
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1. readme.txt: this Readme file.

2. KimPelc_vaccine_main.dta: Stata dataset that has the CES survey combined with key regional variables. The dataset is used to generate results presented in Table 1, Figures 1 and 4, Tables A1-A11.

3. state.Rdata: R dataset that has state-level vaccination and polarization variable. The dataset is used to generate Figure 3, Figures A1 and A2.

4. state_year.RData: R dataset that has state-by-year average ideological distance. The dataset is used to generate Figure 2.

5. vaccine_main.do: Do-file that reproduces Table 1, Figures 4 and Tables A1-A11.

6. vaccine_figures.R: R script that reproduces Figures 1, 2, 3, A1 and A2. 

7. KimPelc_vaccine_log.log: Log file for running vaccine_main.do.

8. vaccine_figures.log: Log file for running vaccine_figures.R.


